Alien:...s::Rpm(3pm)

💖 Alien::Packages::Rpm 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about Alien::Packages::Rpm — it's a Perl module from the Alien::Packages family and it literally goes and gets information from the RedHat Package Manager CLI. no cap. it's giving "I asked rpm so you don't have to" energy. 👑

this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation manual, section 3pm, and it is SO much shorter than it looks. we love a compact queen. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

Alien::Packages::Rpm — get's information from RedHat Package Manager CLI

(yes, the apostrophe in "get's" is canon, I'm not touching it, it's iconic in its own way 🫶)

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🌈 ISA 🌈

the family tree, periodt:

Alien::Packages::Rpm
ISA Alien::Packages::Base

so Alien::Packages::Rpm is-a Alien::Packages::Base. it inherited the whole vibe from its parent and honestly? main character energy. 💅

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🦋 SUBROUTINES/METHODS 🦋

here's the whole squad. three methods. that's it. short and slay.

🌸 usable

returns true when the rpm database access is not available (that's when RPM::Database is not available) and the rpm command could be found in the path.

not me reading that twice 😭 bestie that's genuinely what it says, so that's what I'm telling you, character for character. no edits, no "fixing," we respect the source in this house. 💖

🍓 list_packages

returns the list of installed rpm packages. every single one. the whole roster. it's giving attendance sheet for the rpm class. ✨

🧚 list_fileowners

returns the rpm packages which are associated to requested file(s). you hand it a file (or files!), it tells you which packages claim that file as theirs. lowkey the most useful one here and we're obsessed. 🔥

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jens Rehsack, "<rehsack at cpan.org>"

give them their flowers, fr fr. 🌸

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💜 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright 2010 Jens Rehsack.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.

two licenses, your choice, that's the deal bestie. pick one and go be free. 🕊️

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and that's the whole page!! tysm for coming to my TED talk, this was documented with perl v5.42.0 on 2025-07-25, so if you're reading this from the future... hey. 💖✨ mwah, go install something, iykyk. 🎀🦋